Xbox One for less than £150 ‘on the way’ – but missing one key feature

A couple of new Xbox One consoles are rumoured to be on the way next year, with one only able to play streamed or downloaded games

By Alex Sassoon Coby, Digital Gaming Editor

17th November 2018, 1:43 am

Updated: 17th November 2018, 1:49 am

MICROSOFT is planning to release a super-budget-price Xbox One next year that will ship without a disc drive, reports suggest.

According to Microsoft insider site Thurrott, Microsoft is trying to cut the PlayStation's lead this generation by aggressively cutting the costs of getting into Xbox before totally new consoles arrive in 2020.

The aim is to get the retail price of the new device under $200 (£156), according to the report.

The new discless device will be followed by a new Xbox One S that will have an optical drive, but will cost less than the £250 you currently need to shell out for one.

Alongside the device will reportedly be a new disc-to-digital trade-in service that will allow Xbox fans to get digital download codes for games they already own and ditch the physical copies.

The report suggest that Microsoft's focus on both devices is to get the cost down as much as possible "without sacrificing the core gaming experience", but it is unclear which corners may be cut to try and bring the costs down.

Microsoft revealed that its working on new "consoles" at E3 earlier this year

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Gamers will have to wait until 2020 for an Xbox Two (or whatever the follow-up to the Xbox One family is called), though that is widely expected to come in two flavours too, one of which will also lack an optical drive.

The new device "family", codenamed Scarlett, has been in the works for some time.

Microsoft confirmed at E3 2018 it was working on traditional next-gen hardware as well as a new game-streaming platform, which has since been revealed as Project xCloud.

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